Asia in Pictures

May 6, 2013 11:48 p.m. ET

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Venezuelan challenger Jaider Parra lay on the canvas after being knocked down by Japanese defending champion Takashi Uchiyama, left, in the fifth round of their WBA super featherweight title bout in Tokyo on Monday.
Koji Sasahara/Associated Press…

Activists from Hefajat-e Islam chased police officers in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, on Monday. At least seven people were killed in clashes between police and hard-line Islamists demanding reforms that critics say would amount to the 'Talibanization' of a country that maintains secularism as state policy.
Reuters…

Children stood near a soldier standing guard at an entrance of a compound in Quetta, Pakistan, where an election rally was held Monday.
Arshad Butt/Associated Press…

A farmer harvested wheat at a field in Katmandu, Nepal, on Monday.
Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters…

Students prepared for next month's national college entrance exam at the No. 2 Middle School in Tangxian county, in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, on Monday.
Zhu Xudong/Xinhua/Zuma Press…

Honor-guard troops marched during a welcoming ceremony for visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.
Feng Li/Getty Images…

Eunuchs held up their voter cards in Bhubaneswar, in the Indian state of Orissa, on Monday. Nearly 175 voter cards were distributed to transgender people and eunuchs for the first time in the state, allowing them to participate in next year's state elections.
Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press…

A holy man smoked tobacco in his hut near Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, on Monday.
Niranjan Shrestha/Associated Press…

A car was surrounded by debris after construction workers broke up a parking lot to make way for a wider street in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi province, on Monday. The construction workers failed to contact the car's owner and started working around the vehicle.
AFP/Getty Images…

A man crossed a stream in Seoul on Monday, surrounded by lanterns strung up ahead of the Buddha's birthday.
Lee Jin-man/Associated Press…

A food vendor waited for customers at a shopping district in Beijing on Monday.
Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters…

A performer dressed as a police officer stood near an actual traffic policeman during a traffic-safety campaign in Jakarta on Monday.
Agung Kuncahya B./Xinhua/Zuma Press…

A man went for a swim in the seaside tourist city of Hua Hin, Thailand, on Monday.
Barbara Walton/European Pressphoto Agency…